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[PATCH] Add `header-line-active` and `header-line-inactive` faces.

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Message #111 received at 73862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Cc: trevor.m.murphy <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, aaronjensen <at> gmail.com,
 73862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73862: [PATCH] Add `header-line-active` and
 `header-line-inactive` faces.
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:57:17 +0200

> From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
>   trevor.m.murphy <at> gmail.com,  73862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:11:07 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > We also haven't yet heard from Eshel.
> 
> I don't have any concrete suggestions at this point.  It's surely a
> complicated situation.

Did you try the patch I posted, and if you did, did it resolve your
original problems?  That's what I wanted to hear, since you were one
of the two persons who raised these issues.

> The workaround of remapping both header-line-active and
> header-line-inactive instead of header-line seems to work.  The way I
> see it, the essence of the issue is that the "face" abstraction is
> leaky, in the sense that some faces (these "basic faces") behave
> differently from other faces in some cases that involve inheritance and
> remapping.

AFAIK, only face-remapping behaves differently, and only when a basic
face inherits from another.  The inheritance itself work as with other
faces.

> I think this calls for either changing the way basic faces are
> handled so they do behave like any other face, or clearly
> documenting their subtleties.

Patches to rework the faces support so that these idiosyncrasies are
removed will be most welcome.  I just don't plan on doing that myself,
as I won't have time for that.

TIA

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